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‘Hyperscale’ data center firms take infrastructure spending to new levels
Hyperscale data center operators spent a combined $26 billion on new infrastructure in the last quarter, up more than 53 percent from the third quarter of 2017. The data comes from Synergy Research Group’s latest report on hyperscale capital expenditure, which revealed that Amazon Web Services Inc., Google LLC, Microsoft Corp., Facebook Inc. and Apple Inc. ...
As iPhone sales falter, Apple supplier Foxconn to reduce operations costs by $3B
Taiwan’s Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd., better known as Foxconn, apparently is planning to cut operational costs by about 20 billion yuan ($2.9 billion) following what it said was a “very difficult and competitive year.” The company is intending to slash about 10 percent of its “nontechnical staff” from its roster over the next ...
Cloud security startup Alcide lands $7M in Series A funding round
Cybersecurity startup Alcide, a subsidiary of Alcid.IO Ltd., says it’s ready to play with the big boys now. Today, it announced it has landed $7 million in a Series A round of financing that it plans to use to fuel its expansion into the U.S., Europe and the Middle East. The round was led by ...
Amazon has built an AI system that can train robots to speak like a newsreader
Amazon.com Inc. has come up with a new artificial intelligence system that can train digital voice assistants such as Alexa to learn new speaking styles, similar to a newsreader for example, in a matter of hours. In a blog post today, Trevor Wood, Amazon’s applied science manager, said the new text-to-speech system could replace traditional methods ...
With Contextor acquisition, SAP jumps into hot robotic process automation market
SAP SE today became the latest enterprise company to jump into the white-hot robotic process automation market, acquiring a significant player called Contextor SAS for an undisclosed price. SAP said it was buying Contextor primarily to help accelerate the development of its Leonardo platform, which is used by enterprises to create automated machine-learning-based applications and ...
No surprise here, but Amazon continues to dominate the public cloud market
Amazon Web Services Inc. has retained its position as top dog in the public cloud infrastructure services market by some distance from its closest rivals, according to new data today from Synergy Research Group. The research firm said third-quarter data shows that Amazon’s lead stretches across all four of the world’s major regions, with Microsoft ...
Amid strong earnings, Pure Storage unveils its hybrid cloud play with AWS
Flash storage company Pure Storage Inc. built on a strong third-quarter showing with the announcement of new block storage, data protection and deduplication services for Amazon Web Services Inc.’s public cloud. The company recorded a fiscal third-quarter profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of 13 cents per share. Revenue rose 34 percent from a ...
Cato Networks improves its ability to detect and resolve network outages
Networking specialist Cato Networks Ltd. says it’s getting better at monitoring performance fluctuations and resolving issues such as brownouts and blackouts more effectively. The company, which sells a software-defined wide-area network service, today introduced an intelligent “last mile management service” to its flagship Cato Cloud SD-WAN. SD-WAN is a specific application of software-defined networking technology ...
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 makes its debut
Four years on from the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, open source software company Red Hat Inc. finally announced today that version 8 of its computer server operating system is now in beta. A lot has changed in the world of Linux during that time, with vastly more workloads running in public clouds and ...
Oracle buys SD-WAN company Talari Networks
Oracle Corp. said today it’s acquiring a software-defined wide area network company called Talari Networks Inc. in order to build out its cloud and networking businesses. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Talari’s main product is its Failsafe technology, which is an SD-WAN platform used to connect enterprise networks such as branch offices ...